Important Goals From Colm Looney Drag Us Back Into The Game
April 17, 2019
3-17 to 2-13 17th April 2019 Vs. Clyda Rovers
Last Tuesday night in Buttevant, Killavullen and Clyda Rovers served up a very fine game of football that had the patrons talking about this fine game, long after the final whistle.
Killavullen started brightly and has point on the board from Padraig Looney and Michael Fresh, before Clyda clawed one back. Then Clyda were awarded a penalty, needlessly conceded by the Killavullen rear guard that was expertly tucked away. We or got a score back from Mike Fresh before the same player equalised for us, from a free. Patrick Angland was having a brilliant tussle with the very crafty Conor Corbett and the key to the game was keeping this fine, fine player off the scoring sheet, but that is easier said than done. His movement off the ball is exemplary. He forged his team ahead again only for Colm Looney to equalise. In this ding dong tussle, Clyda again went ahead but this time Jack O Connor equalised from a free, after Eddie Cotter had been fouled. Just before the break, Clyda went ahead again, to lead by a point the break, 1-04 to 0-06.
In the second half, both teams traded points but Clyda remaining in front by a solitary score. Our score came from another Jack O Connor free. Clyda put on a spurt now, and had gone 3 points ahead by the 9th minute of the period. Liam Fox gathered a high ball in the goal area and scored a nice point to reduce the arrears, but Clyda answered the point with another of their own. They stretched their lead out to 4 points by the midway point of the half but Colm Looney reduced that arrears dramatically with a fine goal, where his strength came to the fore as Clyda defenders were hanging off him, and yet he got away his shot. This was in the 17th minute. Clyda though, showed their craft, and got a green flag score of their own, to again open up a four point lead again, with only 10 minutes remaining on the clock.
Clyda stretched that lead out to five points with 8 minutes on the clock but Jack O Connor stayed calm to his routine, and scored a fine point from a free, from an awkward angle. With 2 minutes remaining, Colm unleashed a thunderbolt of a shot that was past the goal keeper before he had a chance to move to bring us right back into the game. We pressed right to the end, and Jack equalised for us, win the 2nd minute of injury time to lead the score at the long whistle, 2-11 apiece and extra time was to follow.
In the extra time period, and Clyda short some influential players that had received black cards in the initial 60 minutes, Eoin Buckley and Paul O Sullivan became very prominent and helped us substantially to get ahead.
Jack scored another brace of points, and Padraig Looney got another brace to have us leading by 4 after 10 minutes. Clyda got one back before the short interval. On the change over, the decisive score came from a Mike fResh goal in the 4th minute to pen up a six point lead, that was pushed out to 7 by Padraig and we finished strong to run out winners on a final score of 3-17 to 2-13
- James Angland
- Brian Cotter
- Seamus Fox
- Padraig Cronin
- Patrick Angland
- Paul O Sullivan (0-01)
- Fionn Magner
- Eoin Buckley
- Eddie Cotter
- Colm Looney (2-01)
- Jack O Connor (0-04)
- Michael Fresh (0-05)
- Mikey O Connor (0-01)
- Padraig Looney (0-03)
- Liam Fox (0-01)
Substitutes:
- Darragh O Grady (0-01)
- Liam Eoin Nagle
- Sean Woulfe